Life is a marathon, a long drawn out battle with many ups and downs. Life can become a marathon for those individuals, and anyone connected with them, who enter the London Marathon every year. "Life is a Marathon" is a humorous fictional story of seven wildly different yet somehow connected individuals from the same small town who take the plunge and enter the London Marathon for the first time. You will find someone you can relate to amongst an obsessive runner, an overweight jilted wife, an overworked young mum, a powerful middle-aged business man, a gym junkie, a fun loving party queen and a football mad jack the lad. Laugh as you learn about their life stories and discover how they, however tenuous, are all connected. Be inspired as you find out what it is like to run in the greatest mass participation race on earth. You may even be motivated by their reasons for running, which range from selflessly raising money for charity to selfishly trying to get on National television, to start running and enter the London Marathon yourself.

Product Description: A lively history of the Watch and Ward Society--New England's notorious literary censor for over eighty years.Banned in Boston is the first-ever history of the Watch and Ward Society--once Boston's unofficial moral guardian. An influential watchdog organization, bankrolled by society's upper crust, it actively suppressed vices like gambling and prostitution, and oversaw the mass censorship of books and plays...read more

Product Description: It was all routine even if hundreds of pounds of earth were pressing down on their heads, even though the ceiling might potentially collapse at any moment, even if they were surrounded by a sea of darkness and had no idea what lay in front of them...read more

A history of gay and lesbian life combines historical and contemporary writings to discuss such topics as gay havens in the military and gay life in Nazi Germany

Product Description: Following the brutal murders of two children in Sioux City, Iowa, in 1954, police, in an attempt to quell public hysteria, arrested 20 men whom the authorities never claimed had anything to do with the crimes. Labeled as sexual psychopaths under an Iowa law that lumped homosexuals together with child molesters and murderers, the men were sentenced to a mental institution until cured...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Delineating its usage in separation, purification and detection processes across a variety of disciplines, from industry to applied research, this work discusses the principles, techniques and instrumentation involving HPLC within a detailed framework...read more

Product Description: A journalistic account of gay and lesbian life in the diverse gay communities of Thailand, Germany, Argentina, South Africa, Australia, and other locales. Out in the World sheds light on the cultural, political, and social factors influencing gay life.

Represents the author's nationwide survey of gay America--a sampling including an openly gay mayor in Missouri, a Latin lesbian community in San Antonio and a black gay church in Washington, D.C.

Represents the author's nationwide survey of gay America--a sampling including an openly gay mayor in Missouri, a Latin lesbian community in San Antonio and a black gay church in Washington, D.C.